LONDON WEST END THEATER PRODUCTIONS-PLAYS

**Playing for a Strictly Limited Season between Oct. 02, 2018 and Dec. 01, 2018**

By Florian ZellerTranslated by Christopher HamptonDirected by Jonathan Kent

The Height of the Storm is a beautifully compelling family drama by Florian Zeller, “the most exciting playwright of our time” (The Guardian). Starring two of the greatest actors of their generation on stage together for the first time, this major new play from the writer of Olivier Award-Winning The Father is a searing exploration of love, family and the fragility of life.

André and Madeleine have been in love for over fifty years. This weekend, as their daughters visit, something feels unusual. A bunch of flowers arrives, but who sent them? A woman from the past turns up, but who is she? And why does André feel like he isn’t there at all?

Jonathan Pryce is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning actor of stage and screen. His varied work includes lauded performances in film including Brazil, Glengarry Glen Ross, Carrington and Evita and on stage in a landmark international tour of The Merchant of Venice, Comedians for which he received a Tony Award and Miss Saigon in the West End and on Broadway. He most recently appeared as the High Sparrow in the hugely successful Game of Thrones.

Dame Eileen Atkins is a three-time Olivier award-winning actress. She is known for her BAFTA and Emmy award-winning performance in Cranford, as well as roles in film including Gosford Park, The Hours and Robin Hood. Her many stage appearances include Honour, Retreat from Moscow and Ellen Terry. She can be seen most recently as Queen Mary in Netflix’s The Crown.

“Complex and subtle…a beautiful new play.” – Le Figaro

“Highly sensitive and compassionate…Zeller reminds us that life is beautiful.” – Le Parisien

**Playing for a Strictly Limited Season between Feb. 13, 2018 and May. 19, 2018**

Following unanimous critical acclaim and widespread demand for tickets, Jez Butterworth’s epic new play The Ferryman is now booking to 19 May 2018 at the Gielgud Theatre. Directed by Sam Mendes, the play premiered at the Royal Court, becoming the fastest-selling show in the theatre’s history.

What Is The Ferryman About?The Ferryman is set in Northern Ireland, 1981. The Carney family are busy preparing for an evening of feasting and celebrations following the annual harvest day. But this year, they have a visitor.

Since its opening in London earlier this year, first at The Royal Court and then in West End, The Ferryman has been one of the most important plays of 2017, having been given 5 star reviews by all of the main theatre critics, including The Independent, The Stage, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, The Financial Times and so on. The Standard says ‘it’s a triumphant show that fully justifies the hype’.

**Playing for a Strictly Limited Season between Feb. 24, 2018 and May. 12, 2018**

The Best ManDOES THE BEST MAN ALWAYS WIN THE WHITE HOUSE?

By Gore Vidal

Two opposing presidential party candidates are neck and neck in an unscrupulous battle for the nomination. The only thing that separates the ex-Secretary of State and his populist opponent is an endorsement from a respected ex-President. But where does compromise end and corruption begin? How far will they each go to become the most powerful man in the world? And who in the end will be proven to be “the best man”?

One of the UK’s best loved actors, MARTIN SHAW leads a star-studded cast. Best known for his TV roles in Judge John Deed, Inspector George Gently and The Professionals, he returns to the stage after his West End triumphs which include An Ideal Husband, Twelve Angry Men, Are You Lonesome Tonight? and A Man for All Seasons.

JEFF FAHEY, American movie star whose films include The Lawnmower Man and TV series Lost co-stars alongside one of Britain’s finest and best loved film, TV and theatre actresses MAUREEN LIPMAN (CBE). Best known on the big screen for roles such as Trish in Educating Rita and in the Oscar winning film The Pianist. A prolific stage actress, Lipman is an Olivier Award winner (See How They Run) and has appeared in some 20 West End productions.

Joining them is JACK SHEPHERD, whose extensive career includes his celebrated roles in Wycliffe and Bill Brand; HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS who starred alongside Michael Kitchen as Samantha Stewart in Foyle’s War and GLYNIS BARBER, best known for Dempsey and Makepeace, Night and Day and EastEnders.

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**Playing for a Strictly Limited Season between May. 05, 2018 and May. 13, 2018**

Grand Designs Live, proudly sponsored by Anglian Home Improvements, returns in 2018 from 5 – 13 May at London’s ExCeL.

Based on the Channel 4 series and presented by Kevin McCloud, the show offers visitors top expert advice, new product launches and specialist exhibitors in six project zones. Whether you’re planning a self-build, renovation or are adding the finishing touches, find ideas and inspiration for your very own Grand Design at this multi-award winning event.

Cancellation PolicyNo exchanges or refunds after booking.

Suitable For ChildrenChildren 15 and under can attend for free when accompanied by an adult. A child ticket is required to enter the show. You can collect these from the box office on the day of your visit.

**Playing for a Strictly Limited Season between Jan. 19, 2018 and Mar. 31, 2018**

wo queens. One in power. One in prison. It’s all in the execution.

Following a critically acclaimed, sold-out season at the Almeida Theatre in 2016-17, Robert Icke’s new adaptation of Mary Stuart transfers to the Duke of York’s Theatre in London’s West End from 13 January for a limited run.

Schiller’s political tragedy takes us behind the scenes of some of British history’s most crucial days. Playing both Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, Juliet Stevenson (Hamlet) and Lia Williams (Oresteia) trade the play’s central roles, decided at each performance by the toss of a coin.

**Playing for a Strictly Limited Season between Jan. 19, 2018 and Apr. 07, 2018**

The day of Lady Windermere’s birthday party, and all is perfectly in order. Until her friend Lord Darlington plants a seed of suspicion. Is her husband having an affair? And will the other woman really attend the party?

‘You gave me this fan today; it was your birthday present. If that woman crosses my threshold, I shall strike her across the face with it’

Award-winning director Kathy Burke (The Quare Fellow and Once a Catholic) has brought together a talented comedic cast. Samantha Spiro, playing Mrs Erlynne, won an Olivier Award for her performance in Merrily We Roll Along at the Donmar Warehouse. Kevin Bishop will play Lord Darlington, having recently starred in one-man show Fully Committed at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Once In A Lifetime at the Young Vic.

Comedian, screenwriter and actor Jennifer Saunders guest stars as the Duchess of Berwick, marking her return to the West End stage for the first time in over twenty years. Jennifer is best known for writing and starring in the sketch show French and Saunders and the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, which won international acclaim, a BAFTA and an Emmy.

Classic Spring is a new theatre company, formed by Dominic Dromgoole (former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre) to celebrate the bold and ground breaking work of proscenium playwrights in the architecture for which they wrote.

Its first offering is an Oscar Wilde Season at the Vaudeville, revolving around his four great Victorian plays, which shocked and redefined British theatre, and still resonate and refresh today. On sale now A Woman of No Importance and Lady Windermere’s Fan, coming soon is An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest.

**Playing for a Strictly Limited Season between Jan. 19, 2018 and Apr. 14, 2018**

Sonia Friedman Productions presents

The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter

Following critically-acclaimed productions of Betrayal, and Old Times, Ian Rickson directs an Olivier Award-winning cast in a new production of Harold Pinter’s dark-comic masterpiece The Birthday Party, featuring Toby Jones (The Play What I Wrote, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Sherlock), Stephen Mangan (The Norman Conquests, Jeeves and Wooster, Episodes), Zoë Wanamaker (Harlequinade, Passion Play, My Family), and Pearl Mackie.

Stanley Webber (Tony Jones) is the only lodger in a sleepy seaside boarding house run by Meg (Zoë Wanamaker) and Petey Boles. That is – until the unsettling arrival of enigmatic strangers Goldberg (Stephen Mangan) and McCann disrupts the humdrum lives of the trio and their friend Lulu. As a seemingly innocent birthday party turns into a disturbing nightmare, mundanity becomes menace, and truth and alliances hastily shift.

The Birthday Party opens in January 2018 for a strictly limited run of 14 weeks. Book your tickets for The Birthday Party at The Harold Pinter Theatre in London today!

Good To KnowWe can never guarantee a particular actor. This is subject to sickness and holidays.

**Playing for a Strictly Limited Season between May. 17, 2018 and Jun. 15, 2018**

Packed with puppetry and enough theatrical magic to enchant both young and old alike, our spellbinding reinvention of Peter Pan is back.

For the wounded soldiers of World War One, imagination is their only escape. Yet as they’re transported to the fantastical lagoons and pirate ships of Never Land, allegories of the war they’ve left behind are ever present.

George Llewelyn Davies, later killed in action in 1915, was one of the children who inspired J. M. Barrie to create the iconic character of Peter Pan. Remembering him, and a generation of Lost Boys, Timothy Sheader and Liam Steel’s “stunning, moving, definitive production is not to be missed” (Time Out)

**Playing for a Strictly Limited Season between Feb. 01, 2018 and Apr. 01, 2018**

FOLLOWING THE PHENOMENAL SOLD OUT VAULT FESTIVAL RUN, THE IMMERSIVE THEATRICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR CONTINUES…

PERFORMANCES ALREADY SELLING OUT, ADVANCE BOOKING ADVISED.

“The honour would be entirely mine if you would attend my little party.”

It’s the roaring twenties – an era of bootleg liquor, red hot jazz and hedonistic pleasures. Jay Gatsby has invited you to one of his infamous parties and that’s not an invite you want to turn down.

Step into a heart-racing immersive adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal jazz-age novel which puts you in the heart of the action. Slip on your dancing shoes and watch the story unfold around you in this unique theatrical performance. The cocktails are flowing, the music is playing, the party is in full swing and there’s the chance of more than a little scandal.

**Playing for a Strictly Limited Season between Jan. 19, 2018 and Sept. 16, 2018**

Step inside the magnificent surroundings of London County Hall and experience the intensity and drama of Agatha Christie’s gripping story of justice, passion and betrayal in a unique courtroom setting.

Leonard Vole is accused of murdering a widow to inherit her wealth. The stakes are high – will Leonard survive the shocking witness testimony, will he be able to convince the jury, and you of his innocence and escape the hangman’s noose?

Don’t miss this landmark stage production on London’s Southbank.

See you in court.

Cancellation PolicyNo exchanges or refunds.

Suitable For ChildrenPARENTAL GUIDANCE

**Playing for a Strictly Limited Season between Jan. 19, 2018 and Nov. 04, 2018**

The comedy masterminds behind five-star hits The Play That Goes Wrong (Olivier Award for Best New Comedy) and Peter Pan Goes Wrong, return to the West End with their latest lung-bustingly funny creation: The Comedy About A Bank Robbery.

Welcome to Minneapolis, 1958, and the Minneapolis City Bank. Now under the gruff and rather irreverent management of Robin Freeboys, the Bank is entrusted with a priceless diamond by a Hungarian prince. However, when the jewel catches the eye of mean-spirited jailbird Mitch, he teams up with corrupt guard Cooper and Freeboys’ money-hungry daughter Candice, intent on separating the Bank from its most precious deposit.

Mischief Theatre’s new play, written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, is already being called the funniest show in London. Fast-paced and riotously hilarious, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery masterfully unites screw-ball comedy with real theatrical invention, and is guaranteed to have you rolling in the aisles.

Playing at the Criterion Theatre, book your tickets to The Comedy About A Bank Robbery today!

Cancellation Policy

No refunds or exchanges after booking.

Suitable For Children

Recommended age: 11 +

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**Playing for a Strictly Limited Season between Jan. 19, 2018 and Jan. 26, 2019**

The Woman In Black is a gripping theatrical exploration of terror, ‘a masterpiece’ (The Guardian) that’s been thrilling audiences of all ages with its unique blend of suspense, drama and bold stagecraft.

Now celebrating 25 years in the West End, the Woman In Black is ‘a marvellous exercise in tension, spun from perfectly paced storytelling’ (The Independent) that has enthralled over 7 million people since its original debut.

Feel the power of the Woman In Black for yourself and experience the ‘most brilliantly effective spine-chiller you will ever encounter’ (The Daily Telegraph).

Suitable For Children

The Woman in Black is suitable for children aged 8 and over. Children aged under 5 will not be admitted to the Fortune Theatre.

Good To Know

* Please note that the show on the 12th July @ 1pm is a schools matinee- open to school groups and the general public*

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